Biden extends W.H. invite: 'No bull----'

9/11/12 1:04 PM EDT

When Vice President Joe Biden met Brad Shober last year, he gave the Shanksville, Pa., deputy fire chief a vice presidential challenge coin.

“’Next time I see you, if you have that coin, drinks are on me,’" Shober recalled Biden saying, according to a pool report. "'If you don’t have it, drinks are on you.'"

The next time came Tuesday, when the vice president made an unannounced visit to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Department. Sure enough Shober had the coin, so Biden then invited him and the other firefighters to Washington and pointed to an aide.

“He’s going to call you, no bull----,” Biden said, according to the pool report. Then, noticing the pool of reporters listening in, the vice president revised his language. “This is no malarkey. You come to the White House. I’ll buy you a beer.”